[Distutils] Make PEP 426 less boring

2015-04-12 Thread Thomas Güttler
Hi, somehow I feel bored if I read PEP 426. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ One concrete improvement would be to remove this paragraph: {{{ The design draws on the Python community's 15 years of experience with distutils based software distribution, and incorporates ideas and concep

Re: [Distutils] pip/warehouse feature idea: "help needed"

2015-04-12 Thread Alexander Walters
On 4/12/2015 21:08, Nick Coghlan wrote: Hence the idea of making the feature accessible through the command line clients, not just the web service. For the love of... Can we get packaging fixed before we start jamming crap onto the tools? Enough already. No. Just No. Never. Stop. J

Re: [Distutils] pip/warehouse feature idea: "help needed"

2015-04-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 11 Apr 2015 12:22, "Alexander Walters" wrote: > > Is the package index really the best place to put this? This is a very social-networking feature for the authoritative repository of just about all the third party module, and it feels like either it could corrupt the 'sanctity' of the reposito